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Belt charging system

M. Letournel, J.-C. Oberlin

To cite this version:

(2)

BELT

CHARGING SYSTEM

M. LETOURNEL and J.-C. OBERLIN

Centre de Recherches

Nucléaires,

Université Louis

Pasteur,

67037

Strasbourg

Cedex,

France

Résumé. 2014 Les courroies des accélérateurs M.P. ont rencontré de sérieuses difficultés

principale-ment au sujet de la durée de vie. Différents paramètres du système de charge par courroie sont analysés et certains d’entre eux sont soulignés comme concourant à la détérioration de la courroie ou à la

modu-lation de tension. Dans cet ordre d’idées, certaines

expériences

sont actuellement en cours et seront

poursuivies afin de

pallier

à ces limitations de courroie et de déterminer également les

possibilités.

Abstract. 2014 In

M.P. accelerators belts have encountered some difficulties mainly about the belt

life time. In the belt charging system, parameters are investigated and some of them are

pointed

out as being

partly

responsible either for belt deterioration or

for

belt ripple.

Experiments

are and will be carried out to surround the actual belt limitations.

In many

places

after

carrying

a lot of nuclear

physic

experiments,

belts seem to have encountered

big

diffi-culties,

specially

in M.P. machines. Belt

charging

system

seems very

simple.

Corona needles or now

screens,

deposit charges

at the base of the machine and carry them up to the terminal electrode where

they

are

picked

up by a screen. In order to double the

possibility

of

charging,

negative

charges

can be

drawn from the terminal electrode down to the base. All this has worked well for many years. Besides of

some well known

advantages

as

simplicity,

a lot of

current,

transported

belt show another

characteristic,

the

voltage ripple,

well

analyzed by

many

people

[1,

2].

This

ripple

is the modulation in terminal

voltage

due to the balance between the

incoming charge

and the

outgoing charge

tempered

through

the RC of the terminal electrode. A corona stabilizer have to cope with the free

running ripple

in order to

bring

it around 1 or 2 kV

[3].

Everyone

knows the main characteristics of the

belt,

but is also aware of some disasters with M.P.

belt

(Fig.

1).

Belt life time is

commonly

more than 10 000 hours in many Van de Graaff

machines,

but

specially

in the M.P. machine it has turned out

that belt life time is the

major

critical

point,

belt duration

being generally everywhere

of the order of a

few thousand hours or even 1 or 2 000 hours. Black

and tan belts have shown the same characteristic

deterioration process. A ruined belt shows

everywhere

similar failures:

long

holes

along long stripes

either

completely punctured through

the belt or

partially

punctured

to the belt carcass and on both

sides,

individual

pinholes through

the

belt,

among or

besides

large

mat belt surface areas. A

special

paper is

devoted to this kind of deterioration and structure

[4].

The purpose of this paper is to try to

investigate

some

FIG. 1. - Belt breakdown.

fondamental processes in belt

-charging

system, some

problems,

or some new aspects.

1. Belt - Surface and bulk contact electrification

-Ripple.

- The belt is made of

a cotton carcass

bet-ween two

layers

of rubber. This rubber has to carry

charges

and in static

electricity

there are three

elec-trification processes :

1 - Contact electrification

(including

tribo and field induced

electrification) ;

2 - Corona

charging;

3 - Polarization in electric fields.

There is a

strong

evidence that contact

electrifica-tion

plays

a role in the contact between belt and other material as

pulley

and

guides.

In

fact,

it is

probably

an

important

component of the belt

voltage

ripple.

The rubber

coating

of the belt is a

poly-mer which is able to be

strongly charged through

(3)

1384

contact to a metal. On

figure

2 we see the

experiment

of Volta

[5]

showing

transfer of

charge

after contact

between one

plate

of Zi and one of Cu. The contact

charging

metal insulator and

specially

metal

polymer

is

highly

effective and has been studied

recently

by

many

people.

FIG. 2. - Volta’s

experiment.

On

figure

3 Robins

[6]

shows

charges acquired

by polymers

after

repeated

contact with a chromium

sphere.

We can see a kind of saturation with the

charge

densities

according

to the number of contacts.

FIG. 3. -

Examples of charges acquired after repeated contact.

Contact

charging

is

accomplished mainly by

the

trans-fer of electrons and ions.

Depending

on the nature of the material in contact, the surface condition and.

external factors such as an electric field

traversing

the

interface

a

charge

transfer will occur. If the materials

become

separated

some, none or all of the

charge

may remain on the

respective

surfaces.

This

charge

transfer has been

explained by

Davies

[7]

and Bauser

[8]

and found to be

proportion-nal to the difference in the electron work functions of the

contacting

materials

(Fig. 4).

And the solid state

FIG. 4. -

Example of charge density against work function.

Physics approach

has

given

an

explanation

similar

to that for

inorganic

semiconductors. In static elec-trification of solid insulators

by

metal contacts, electrons are transferred from a metal to an insulator or reverse

depending

on the distribution of the energy

levels involved.

Figure

5 shows the

energy

band

[9]

FIG. 5. - Contact between metal and polymer a) before contact

b) after contact.

schema for a metal and an insulator before and

during

contact. The

charge [10]

densities

produced by

çontact

depend

on the nature and also on the pressure

of the

contacting

materials. Cleves has shown the

strong

dependance [10]

of the

charge density

with the

humidity.

And

it seems very useful to think about a

fan or a

drying

device inside the tank to accelerate the

removal of

moisture,

just

after

closing

the tank. In an

(4)

and the

charge

transfer is very

significant. Charge

densities of 10-9

C/cm2

or more can be

generated

when a metal is

brought

into contact with an insulator

sample.

The electron transfer is instantaneous but it

depends

how the contact area is defined and in

prac-tice build up of

charge

is made after several contacts

depending

on how the contact is made and also

depending

on the nature and the cleanliness of the

surface,

and the contact pressure

[10].

Mordhage

has shown the

dependance

of the

charge density

in contact

with an

applied

electric field

[11]. Polymers

absorb water which may

modify

the electronic structure of the

polymer

and determine a strong

dependance

on

the

charge

transfer. An

experiment

that we have

car-ried out with Coste and

Pechery

on a Van de Graaff belt

sample

in 30

%

relative

humidity

has shown

negative charge

transfer of the order of 2

nC/cm2

at

each contact, 10 contacts

giving

15 x 10-9

C/cm2.

These

experiences

are very well

reproducible

but

values are different from a

sample

to another or even

from one

place

to another on the same belt

sample .

Humidity plays

a

major

role.

It is

long

known that

rubbing insulating

mate-rial

ône

on the other or on

metal,

make them to

get

charge

of a certain.

sign.

Triboelectric lists or series

of different materials are in many books

[8],

and belt

do not avoid such a

phenomena,

which is very

compli-cated.

Slipping

belts,

high

or low

ripple depending

on belt

tension,

might imply

a component

coming

from this

negative charge

transfer onto the belt. From the mechanical

point

of view of a pure contact and

separation avoiding

any

sliding,

the

charge density

is

proportional

to the difference in work function of

the

contacting

partners. As soon as

gliding

or friction occurs, the

phenomenon

is far

more

complex

and less

reproducible.

And what is

contact and what is friction? Studies of the electrosta-tic

charges developed by

friction under well controlled conditions

specially

for relative

humidity

have been done

by

Coste and

Pechery (1)

with an

aparatus

where

there is a belt

rotating

on rollers and

gliding

is assured

by

one of the rollers which can tum as the same

speed

or

speed

up or down or

stopped.

A certain pressure

can be

applied.

The remarkable results of thousands of

experiments

of different materials is that it is

possible

to divide the results in three different types

(Fig.

6).

1 -

Charge density

is

growing

up to a constant

level. II -

Charge density

goes

through

a

maximum,

then

decreases,

changes polarity

to obtain a new

equilibrium

state.

III -

Charge density goes through

a

maximum,

decreases to a constant level without

polarity change.

(1) COSTE J. and PECHERY P. Private communication.

Experiences

are now

being

carried out with a

belt and it seems that belt is of the type I. It seems that

when we

stop

the

friçtion,

the normal

polarity

and

charge

transfer occur in the samé way as before but it

FIG. 6. - Charging friction effect versus time.

is not

always

the case and results are

dependant

of the

surface itself and many

factor.

For a

belt,

for

example

a M.P.

belt,

belt is driven

by

a drive motor whose drum is a

designes,

with 17 grooves separated of 1 inch in order to let the gas escape. This

pulley

is

slightly

crowned from the two

last grooves on each

side,

down to the end. On the alternator

pulley crowning

is also made on 2 inches on

each side. There the

slippage

effect is obvious and is in the order of some

cm/s.,

on the belt

wings.

The

mechanical load of the belt is

high

and

obviously

not

the same

along

the belt width because of the grooves,

and also in

time,

according

to all the mechanical vibration modes of a

running

belt. All these factors in

addition to the electric up

charge

field are

part

of the

parasitic

charge

transfer,

and

probably

of the

ripple.

Some

loading

on the

normally

non

grooved

alter-nator determines also the

slippage

of the alternator

compared

to the belt. This

phenomenon

leads to induce

a certain amount of

negative charges deposited

onto

the terminal internal belt face. Due to the modulated load

slippage,

it determines an erratic

voltage

ripple

sometimes

higher

in SF6 than 30 kV and hard to

stabilize. The

functionning

of the solution

brought

through

the French connection

(12]

(Fig. 7)

was not

cléar

in the

beginning,

but can be now

explained

by

induction of an

equal

amount of

charge

of

opposite

polarity

induced

through

the second

post

alternator

screen onto the extemal belt side to

compensate

the internai

parasitic

charges.

2. Corona

charging process.

- About the corona

charging

it is known that from a

sharp

needle or a

very thin

wire,

the electric field around those

sharp

points may

increase

beyond

the breakdown

strength

’and corona

discharges

appear. The gas around the

(5)

1386

FIG. 7. - French connection device.

positive

or

negative

go

along

the electric lines of force

and

depending

on the field in the gap and the ratio of

point

radius to gap length, the streamers start with very high speed and slow down to

velocity

of some

100

m/s

or more. Two

things

must be

pointed

out,

first for the

layer

of

charges

on the

insulator,

the

extreme

sensitivity

to the excess

potential

on the

cathode,

second the

strong

dependance

of the current on the

geometrical

characteristics of the wire or needle.

In other

words,

it would be not

surprising

for a row of

needles or a screen to have the current

coming

not

from each

point

but

mainly

from some of them.

3. Double

transportation possibility.

- If

we

intro-duce an insulator into an electric field determined

by

a constant

voltage

U. After a certain

time,

due to

deposit

of ions of same

sign,

the final state of this insulator is as shown on the

figure

8a where the field

FIG. 8. -

a) Insulator between two plates. b) Natural double transportation.

between the insulator surfaces and the electrode is first

reduced,

then reduced to zero. In

1953,

Gart-ner

[13]

showed that the electrostatic machines could run under certain conditions

along

the double natural

charge

transportation. Figure

8b shows this

principle.

For a certain

field,

and

mainly

if we

get

ionization under the inductor

plate,

there is

deposit

of

negative charge density

-6,

charge

bound after a

certain time in the belt and never removed. The

char-ging

system works then that way only in a case of

upcharge.

A

charge density

2 a is put on the belt

by

corona

discharge

for

example

outside the belt and

removed

by

a screen or needle in the terminal

elec-trode. The

charge

-6 is built up after some turns on

the internal belt side. This way of

charging

allows to carry a double

density. Only

the

insulator,

belt

mate-rial encounters an extra strain. This double natural

charge transportation

is a

possibility

at least

partially

in the Van de Graaff machines.

Experiences

of inter-nal belt

charging

have

proved

that

charges

stay

without

being substantially

removed

by

the terminal

pulley,

and all the conditions are there to allow

partly

that kind of

charging.

This process can lead to a non uniform

pattern

of

charges

bound on the

internal belt side due

mainly

to the

parasitic charges

and the non uniform drive motor

geometry.

It can

, influence strongly

the non uniform

deposit

of

charges

by

corona process. To avoid this

possibility,

try of belt

charge

removal can be done

simultaneously

on both

sides after the terminal

pulley (Fig.

9).

FIG. 9. - Double discharge screen.

4.

Charge

removal. - Removal of

charges

from a

charge

insulator can be done

through

different

pro-cesses but

mainly through

the field

produced by

the

charged

belt itself near the top of

grounded points

or

wires which ionized the gas.

Negative

ions are then

projected

on to the

charged

belt in such a way us to

neutralize the excess field at each instant. In the case

of the

(Fig.

10),

these ions are

deposited

on a well

FIG. 10. -

Discharge mecanism of a foil due to an approaching

earthed point: a) before the projection of ions,

b) during the projection of ions,

(6)

defined

surface,

the dimensions of which

depend

on

the

charge

density

and on the

proximity

of any conductors

[14].

Whatever the

speed

is,

a

grounded

screen or serie of needles will

usually

discharge

the belt to an average

charge density

of about 100

pC/cm2

that means for the belt

charge

current, in the order of 1

J.lA

or less.

If there is

enough

space free of

conductors,

this eliminator works

properly

but there are other means

to reduce this value if necessary. As the initial

speed

of these ions is greater than

105

cm/s

the

discharge

follows the field variations almost

instantaneously.

And in case of a H.V.E.C. belt arrangement and in

order to prevent influence from one side on the

other,

two screens with

longwires

one on each

side,

facing

each other on one cm distance can be added

after the terminal

pulley,

with

good

result to take care

of both sides

(Fig.

9).

To

measure the

efficiency

of a

charge

eliminator Lôvstrand

[15]

made a machine

which indicated the better residual

charge density

results with

25 03BC

wires and the

dependance

with the band

velocity,

the

charge density

and the nature of the eliminators.

Under the usual Van de Graaff machine

conditions,

as the

charged

belt

voltage

can not be

higher

than this determined

by

the belt

capacity

itself,

with

charge

density higher

than 4

nC/cm2,

two

neutralizing

steps can be considered in order to

prevent

a spontaneous

discharge,

before the proper removal. The first step

must be in a metallic environment which

keeps

the belt

charge

capacity high

enough.

It means that the

first screen must be at a distance not greater than

some 2 to 4 cm from the

ground,

or in another hand

belt must be

protected by

a

grounded plate

not too far from the first screen.

5.

Physical

processes involved with belts. - A belt

,

has

to be treated as an insulator of a

resistivity

of the

order of 1012 Qcm. Then with no free electrons on

the rubber

surface,

the cotton carcass of

resistivity

of the order of

109

Qcm

being

there from the electric

point

of view to allow a

good

distribution of the

potential. Consequently charging

process, removal process and

charge

transportation

must be

explained

with

this

particular

view of an insulator.

First,

speak-ing

about the so called

rearranging

of

charges

on the

belt to

explain ripple

or loss of

charges

in normal

running

conditions,

it is

impossible.

As

Zichy point

out

[16], charges

are

firmly

bound inside the belt

polymer

structure and it is

impossible

for them to

move except

through

gas ionization determined in a

fixed field

configuration

by

the belt

holding capability.

Second,

the

exchange

of belt

charges

or the

neutralizing

of these

charges proceeds,

under normal conditions

only through

the

incoming

of ions of

opposite

polarity

created in the gas. Electric lines of force

(Fig.

11)

coming

from the top surface of a

charged

belt are

strongly

influenced

by

the

ground

and directed towards the

nearby

conductors. The field

configura-FIG. 11. - Electric lines of forces configuration.

A. Charged belt on pulley with a screen.

B. Çharged belt alone with a screen.

C. Charged belt, screen and nearby conductor.

D. Charged belt on plate, screen.

E. Internal charged belt.

tion in the

pressurized

gas

depends

on the

geometrical

position

of the

nearby

conductors and other neutral

or

charged objects (C).

Then,

to act

properly, charge

removal determined

by

the belt

charge

field itself must be

accomplished

far

enough

from conductors

(B),

otherwise the field created on the screen is to low to

allow a

complete

neutralization

(D).

On the contrary

this

phenomenon

also

explains why

it is

impossible

to

remove any

charge

at all even with a

grounded

screen

from the external side of a

charged

belt

right

onto a

metallic

pulley (A).

By

lack

of field,

we must create an

additional electric field in order to neutralize the

charge

or

eventually

to

charge

with the other

polarity,

by

incoming

ions of

opposite polarity

which is the

case of down

charging.

The field must be strong

enough

only

where

charging

or

charge

removal has to occur. This

explains

why

under normal

conditions,

charges

can stay

during

an infinite time without

being

removed and are the basis of the terminal

voltage

repetitive

ripple

and of the

possible

double natural

transportation. Particularly charges

bound in the belt inside surface are not removed

by

contact on metallic

pulleys (E).

But,

in another

hand,

we can think also

about the use of this

particularity

to

imprint

durable

(7)

1388

6.

Charge transportation.

- Another fundamental

problem

is the

charge transportation through

the total

structure. It is

governed essentially

by

the concept of

charge

belt

capacity,

the deduced

potential,

and gas

rigidity.

The main aspect of the

charge transportation

is studied elsewhere

[4],

and

gives

an

explanation

for the M.P. belt deterioration. About the other

possible

belt failures

(2),

voltages tracks,

surface or volume break-downs are

mainly

due to a

malfunctioning

or

impro-per oimpro-peration somewhere. Over

voltage

or over

char-ging

of the

belt,

poor charge spray or

collection,

inducting inhomogeneity,

wet gas or lack of

condi-tionning

are the

probable

causes of failures. The

importance

of belt moisture removal before normal

operation

has to be

emphasized.

If

charges

move on a

belt

surface,

it is because of too

high

a

tangential

field and a reduced surface

resistivity

due for

example

to

moisture.

7. Modifications in structure. - In

May

1976,

cha-sing

the kind of trouble due to M.P. belt deterioration which was

patent

at this time

through

a current

leakage

on the internal structure section 8 and

follo-wing

the Van de Graaff and

Trump

concept

of

controlling voltage

on the

belt,

we took all spacers

and control rods away. From the drive motor to the terminal

pulley,

the belt was not allowed to touch

anything

except

the four screens. So the outside

guides

and bars were

positioned

to follow as best we could

the

practical running

curve of the belt which is

some-thing

as a catenary curve.

Spacers

and

gradient

rods

were

roughly

at a distance of 1 inch from the up run

and

1/2

inch from the down run which was not

charged.

The mechanical

ripple

was in the order of 1 cm for the

belt

wings

but not more than 5 mm for the middle. To control from

outside,

we added 3

lamps (Fig.

12)

in

FIG. 12. - Half

open structure without rollers.

. the terminal in vertical

setting

which we watched

through

a mirror

system.

We ran with this structure

with

exactly

the same

voltage

characteristics up to

13 MV and with no difference at all from

previous

behaviour.

This half open structure is fine. Since then in order

to stabilize and smooth the

machine,

we have installed insulated rollers

(Fig. 13)

in dead

sections,

termi-(2) H.V.E.C. Private communication.

FIG. 13. - Half

open structure with some rollers.

nal electrode and

high

energy

position.

Some of them

are coated with rubber and

they

all run at

floating

potential (Fig.

14).

We still had the same

voltage

FIG. 14. - Rubber coated roller.

characteristics and the rollers run

perfectly

well.

They

will be used in the future to better define and stabilize belt

charges.

Figure

15 and

figure

16 show the alternator and drive motor covered with two kinds of

rubber,

and with holes which evacuate the SF6 gas towards the ends.

They

have been tried

successfully

in the machine

as

regards voltage.

Besides the

good

friction

coeffi-cient,

the reason to have rubber is that the best non

electrification transfer contact takes

place

between two

material of the same nature. Antistatic rubber can also

be used in order to eliminate

parasitic charges.

But we can not

keep

them like

that,

because of a belt

trans-versal abrasive

displacement,

on the antistatic black

rubber.

They correspond

to the final

design

and we

have decided to

replace

this rubber

by

an identical

sleeve of

metal,

just

thicker.

As far as the

stability

is

concerned,

the same

philo-sophy

as for thé

pelletron

must be

considered,

to

control the total terminal

charge

bilan. We must

try

to

cope with the total belt

charge including

the

parasitic

charges.

A

good

direction is

certainly

to think as

Langsdorf [17]

of

treating

belt

charging

and

dis-charging by

induction. He mounted a belt

charging

(8)

belt face and

brought

the terminal free

running

ripple

in the order of 300 or 500

WBlythe

[18]

presen-ted a similar induction device with

corona

wires. He

succeeded to control

charge

density

for

charging

and

discharging

with a very accurated way. His device

does not

operated

in normal Van de Graaff

running

conditions,

but

joined

to our

rollers,

with some

changes

it can

bring

a

great

improvement

to control the

charge

dénsity

and therefore the terminal

voltage

ripple.

. References

[1] WEITKAMP W. G. and SCHMIDT F. H., Nucl. Instrum.

Methods 122 (1974) 65.

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WEGNER H. E., Nucl. Instrum. Methods 122 (1974) 527. [4] LETOURNEL M. and BELT M. P., Revue Phys. Appl. 12 (1977). [5] RUPPEL W., (Dechema-Monographien) Nr. 1370-1409, 1973,

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